I'm a firm believer on maintaining stability and allowing code to run the same in tomorrow's release as it did in yesterday's (simply: 1.8.5 should not function different from 1.8.4 or any prior/future versions of that stable branch).
With that being said, if any major changes are going to be made, just stick it in 1.9, yay :)
On 6/16/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transf...@gmail.com writes:
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of > |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it > |now.
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode. > Any opinion?
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transf...@gmail.com writes:
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of > |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it > |now.
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode. > Any opinion?
The change both simplifies code related to it and makes Ruby more robust for having it. While it is "big" in a sense, I'd be pretty surprised if any other projects besides mine and RubyGems would be "adversely" affected. That being the case, maybe it's worth moving up in the time-line. 2.0 still seems to be a ways off.
In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:52 +0900, transf...@gmail.com writes:
|> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode. |> Any opinion? | |The change both simplifies code related to it and makes Ruby more |robust for having it. While it is "big" in a sense, I'd be pretty |surprised if any other projects besides mine and RubyGems would be |"adversely" affected. That being the case, maybe it's worth moving up |in the time-line. 2.0 still seems to be a ways off.
Compatibility goes beyond anyone's expectation. I have just got a report that this exact issue broke someone's code last week.
On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transf...@gmail.com writes:
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of > |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it > |now.
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode. > Any opinion?
I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path everything manually and in Rails it becomes very difficult to follow all the ../../../ properly. -- Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl
On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:
> On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" >> on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transf...@gmail.com writes:
>> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of >> |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it >> |now.
>> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode. >> Any opinion?
> I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path > everything manually and in Rails it becomes very difficult to > follow all the ../../../ properly.
That sounds more like a Rails bug, it should be expanding paths for you.
-- Eric Hodel - drbr...@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant
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